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By: Aqsahttp://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/07/29/pakistani-scientist-is-found-fit-to-stand-trial/comment-page-1/#comment-702151
Sun, 04 Jul 2010 11:23:18 +0000http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/07/29/pakistani-scientist-is-found-fit-to-stand-trial/#comment-702151I dont know what is the truth i pray for aafia and his childrens may god bless them in every moment of life aafia we are with you Pakistani Awam is with you
]]>By: MUNAhttp://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/07/29/pakistani-scientist-is-found-fit-to-stand-trial/comment-page-1/#comment-520057
Mon, 14 Sep 2009 22:08:13 +0000http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/07/29/pakistani-scientist-is-found-fit-to-stand-trial/#comment-520057Innocent until proven guilty?

It is really scary how anyone including muslim women are now “suspicious targets” and can have their entires lives ruined because US officials think that they are guilty of something.

She is found in Afghanistan last year with alleged notes on Empire state building oceans away and all of a sudden she is a terrorist.

What is her crime? This witch hunt against Muslims all over the world has to stop…

Reality is a bit different; I vaguely recollect reading that she had started living with a Jihadi .. and had moved away from her family.

Unlike what is is reported in Pakistani Media that she was “sold” to US for money by Musharaff, she appears to have been dyed in Jihadi movement for a long time – that’s why most of her supporters are those people, Imran Khan, Kazi Hussein Ahmed etc. etc.

]]>By: roberto baiocchihttp://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/07/29/pakistani-scientist-is-found-fit-to-stand-trial/comment-page-1/#comment-487441
Mon, 03 Aug 2009 15:37:37 +0000http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/07/29/pakistani-scientist-is-found-fit-to-stand-trial/#comment-487441put her in jail for the entire life and throw away the key, please.
There is a mental disorder but regarding her ideas, not for avoiding a trial. She is a neuroscientist, so we can’t think that she is so nuts

Roberto baiocchi

]]>By: Shimudhttp://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/07/29/pakistani-scientist-is-found-fit-to-stand-trial/comment-page-1/#comment-486091
Thu, 30 Jul 2009 20:34:55 +0000http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/07/29/pakistani-scientist-is-found-fit-to-stand-trial/#comment-486091And I wonder over the wisdom of Americans. The day they start thinking and acting on their own, rather then listening to the media’s exaggerated news stories and interfering in other countries matters on the basis of such stories, more then half of their domestic problems will no longer persist.
]]>By: Gerald Ledbetterhttp://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/07/29/pakistani-scientist-is-found-fit-to-stand-trial/comment-page-1/#comment-485741
Thu, 30 Jul 2009 11:35:22 +0000http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/07/29/pakistani-scientist-is-found-fit-to-stand-trial/#comment-485741It would be a progressive stance on Guantanamo….

The habeas corpus is a mandate for a judicial body to review the reason for and the condition of the detainment of those captured.

Criminal justice is to regulate behavior and maintain order in society. Guantanamo’s detention didn’t train combatants, it assisted in the reflection of the detainees’ wrongdoings by nonphysical punishment.

Although there is no quantitative numerical data, penal experts believe that about 50% of convicted felons will be incarcerated within six years after their release.

No matter what, the remaining detainees on Guantanamo Bay have been given a conscience, our military is still deployed abroad and recidivistic former detainees can be picked up again..

It would be a progressive stance on Guantanamo detainees if the judiciary decides to release the detainees, but the detainees need re-entry rehabilitation and to be released into societies of their own nation and, or from actors willing to accept them with bilateral treaties signed with the legal obligations purporting which actor takes what responsibility when something that presses legal action happen again.

I’m an aspiring journalist.

]]>By: Chris Fhttp://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/07/29/pakistani-scientist-is-found-fit-to-stand-trial/comment-page-1/#comment-485605
Thu, 30 Jul 2009 01:56:52 +0000http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/07/29/pakistani-scientist-is-found-fit-to-stand-trial/#comment-485605She is so obviously mentally unstable if not paranoid schizophrenic that one wonders at the cruelty of a so called justice system that must pursue the mentally ill to show its muscle against “terrorism”.

Medieval. Not much better than throwing witches in water to see whether they float. She is going to have a hard time directing her defense (what evidence will she have at hand to show either her innocence or her mental illness?), if she accepts any at all. America’s binge against “terrorists” is more than lamentable.

]]>By: Frankhttp://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/07/29/pakistani-scientist-is-found-fit-to-stand-trial/comment-page-1/#comment-485317
Wed, 29 Jul 2009 21:05:51 +0000http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/07/29/pakistani-scientist-is-found-fit-to-stand-trial/#comment-485317Yes she’s nuts.
Where are her kids?
Why was a loaded rifle within reach for her to grab?
I hope the agents who are responsible have been reprimanded and/or fired.
Most likely they got a promotion and a medal.
]]>By: USMAN MIRhttp://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/07/29/pakistani-scientist-is-found-fit-to-stand-trial/comment-page-1/#comment-485063
Wed, 29 Jul 2009 18:49:50 +0000http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/07/29/pakistani-scientist-is-found-fit-to-stand-trial/#comment-485063It is a very sad tale of injustice.When laws are broken in the name of keeping laws this happens.How many people Aafia has killed nobody can answer but where are her children that can certainly be found out.If the children have been killed which probably happened in Afghainstan , then who is the victim??/
]]>By: Zaaviyah Hhttp://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/07/29/pakistani-scientist-is-found-fit-to-stand-trial/comment-page-1/#comment-484893
Wed, 29 Jul 2009 17:13:14 +0000http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/07/29/pakistani-scientist-is-found-fit-to-stand-trial/#comment-484893I find it interesting that this only mentions that Aafia Siddiqui was taken into custody in Afghanistan last summer – didn’t she disappear, along with her two or three kids, about five or so summers ago in Pakistan?

And yes, the whole is-she-or-is-she-not-a-nut issue is silly – the woman could be innocent, she could be guilty, either way she hasn’t led the life of a princess in the last few years, has probably lost a child…hard to believe people would expect her to be completely sane.

]]>By: Patrick B Malonehttp://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/07/29/pakistani-scientist-is-found-fit-to-stand-trial/comment-page-1/#comment-484853
Wed, 29 Jul 2009 17:04:15 +0000http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/07/29/pakistani-scientist-is-found-fit-to-stand-trial/#comment-484853How did she get access to a loaded weapon? While in custody!!!

BartM

]]>By: Arshad Sherif, M.A., M.Ed.http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/07/29/pakistani-scientist-is-found-fit-to-stand-trial/comment-page-1/#comment-484781
Wed, 29 Jul 2009 16:36:52 +0000http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/07/29/pakistani-scientist-is-found-fit-to-stand-trial/#comment-484781This whole issue of being fit to stand trial is a little ridiculous: A criminal is always a little nuts. And those under suspicion are just as nutty.
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